Well, the PC and microelctronics in general is an extreme illustration of that (wide enough demand drving down prices without overly hampering production quality), but the biggest obvious difference is obsolecance. Guitar gear doesnt do it, in electronics its inevitable - we all know as soon as a computer or phone is on the shelf its obsolete, and that also keeps demand high.
Cars might be better. People still like old cars, they dont go totally out of the window every 5 years because the next thing is better in every possible way.
Unless someones getting nostalgic for their old 386? :lol:
yeah, of course, the obsolescence thing is something where guitars are very different from most other products. i still say the analogy was close enough, though. :)
speaking of old games, i liked a lot of the old games. there was kind of a golden age around the late 80s/early 90s where computers were getting enough power to make a game not just look like 2 red lines and a dot, and where they could actually implement more complex styles of game (e.g. civilization, settlers etc.), but where most of the game companies were still small and were allowed and encouraged to be original, instead of just cranking out tomb raider 57 or the latest rushed-out movie franchise.
that being said, plenty of new games are good, and plenty of the old ones were rubbish too, so as always it goes back to treating everything on its own merits...
oh, and i just realised i typed "technology" when i meant "analogy" in my last post, sorry :oops: